May 26, 2010 3:38PM 

# Wednesday Links 

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- Special interest groups are lobbying to reverse legalizing direct wine shipping. Translation: [Prepare to spend more on booze if they get their way. ](http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/24/whine-wholesalers-dont-care-about-consumers/)

- A lesson in free market economics … [from Montenegro](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/a-lesson-in-free-market-economics/)?

- Nat Hentoff on Supreme Court nominee [Elena Kagan’s record on free speech](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11836): “I know that a solicitor general is required to argue the legal positions of the administration that hired her — but to this extent?”

- Mark Calabria explains [Sen. Dodd’s financial overhaul bill in a nutshell](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/dodd_do_nothing_financial_reform_WBRtF8mqGDdVdjxv33iyBL): “Give the bureaucrats more power and discretion, without any accountability. Its main achievement is to set up a new agency that will largely determine who, what and how it will regulate.”

- Podcast: “[Obama’s Drug War](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=1161)” featuring Gene Healy.

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